United Methodist Church
Morgan Hill, California

Links to Various Sites Representing Differeing Sides of the Debate

Cal/Nevada Annual Conference Website -

http://www.gbgm-umc.org/CANV/

What's new -- http://www.gbgm-umc.org/CANV/whatsnew.html

To learn more about various aspects of the ongoing dialogue in regard to holy unions, you might wish to look at these websites:

The United Methodist News Service

The article on the judicial council decision.

There is also a good summary of the issue in the News Service.

An article on the support of the cabinet for clergy making their own minds.

Reconciling Congregation Program -- http://www.rcp.org/>

The Reconciling Congregation Program (RCP) is a growing movement of United Methodist individuals, congregations, campus ministries, and other groups which publicly welcome all persons, regardless of sexual orientation.

As of November 1998, the RCP encompasses over 13,800 Reconciling United Methodists, 151 Reconciling Congregations, 24 Reconciling Campus Ministries, 6 Reconciling Conferences, and numerous other "reconciling" groups.

Affirmation-- http://www.umaffirm.org/

United Methodists for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Concerns

Evangelical Renewal Fellowship -- http://www.newpathways.com/faq_links.html

GoodNews Magazine-- http://www.goodnewsmag.org/

Confessing Movement -- http://members.iquest.net/~confessingumc/

Our Mission: "Confessing Jesus Christ as Son, Savior, and Lord, The Confessing Movement exists to enable the United Methodist Church to retrieve its classical doctrinal identity, and to live it out as disciples of Jesus Christ."

Transforming Congregations --

http://www.messiah.edu/hpages/facstaff/chase/h/transfor.htm

Transforming Congregations is a movement among "mainline" denominational churches to affirm that those who deal with homosexual temptations are loved and that Christ can and does have power to change those who face such temptations. Christianity and Homosexulaity Homepage:
http://www.messiah.edu/hpages/facstaff/chase/h/index.htm

Methodist Federation for Social Action

http://www.cas.american.edu/~medsker/mfsa/mfsa.html

The Methodist Federation for Social Action seeks to provide a fruitful witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world, working primarily through the ministries of the United Methodist Church.